Usage Ideas and Applications - Solutions for Display Challenges

Below are a series of display challenges, followed by an easy solution utilizing the VuTech Display System, which provides an improved display method while reducing costly repair and repaint expenditures.

1) Bulletin boards - One difficulty involved with bulletin boards is the random and often unorganized placement of the items being displayed.

VuTech solution: Start by placing a Display Bar approximately five feet from the ground, then place a second Display Bar 14 inches below it. The top Display Bar can be used to display documents up to 8.5 X 14 inches, or smaller. The bottom Display Bar could also be used for another row of similar sized items, or could display larger items such as large posters, etc. The most important thing to remember is that unlike the random placement of items on a bulletin board, all the items placed in a VuTech Display Bar are in neat, easy to view, straight rows. Also with bulletin boards, items that extend beyond the borders of the bulletin board often look unsightly. With the Display Bars not having borders, this problem is eliminated.

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After using VuTech Display Bars

2) Announcements being taped to glass windows and doors at building entry points and/or other locations - Items being displayed are often random and unorganized in placement, and leave tape residue on the glass.

VuTech solution: Start by placing one or more rows of adhesive Display Bars on the inside of the glass. Because a Display Bar can hold multiple items simultaneously, announcements can be placed back to back and thus can be seen by persons entering or exiting while eliminating unsightly tape residue on the glass.

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3) Items being taped to brick or cinder block walls - Items being displayed typically soon fall off and leave a hard to remove tape residue behind.

VuTech solution: Start by cleaning the brick and then apply an adhesive Display Bar to the brick or cinder block wall. By pressing firmly on the Display Bar, the adhesive will surround the texture on textured drywall or go into the pores on brick and cinder block walls. Now items can be easily displayed without them falling off, or disfiguring the walls.

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After using VuTech Display Bars

4) Displaying items around elevators - Items being displayed are typically random and unorganized and often damage wall surfaces, or the interior of elevators.

VuTech solution: Simply place one or more Display Bars for clean organized appearance with no damage to walls. A magnetic Display Bar could be used on metal surfaces inside the elevator as well.

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After using VuTech Display Bars

5) Displaying items on doors - Items being displayed are typically random and unorganized and often damage door surfaces.

VuTech solution: Simply place a Display Bar on door or under name tag for organized display with no damage to door or adjacent wall. The Display Bar can also act as a receptacle for items being left for the person who occupies the office, or to announce a change in a meeting time or location. Magnetic Display bars can be moved around and placed on doors, or any metal surface.

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6) Banners and Large Maps - Varying sized banners (with or without grommets), often cause ongoing wall damage due to them being tacked or taped to walls and other facility surfaces.

VuTech solution: Once in place, the Display Bars can be used to display banners that vary in size, and grommets are no longer needed to hang the banners, thus eliminating wall damage while lowering the cost of producing the banners.

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7) Conference rooms – Quite often during meetings large tripod mounted tablets are used so that the person conducting the meeting can write down information as it is discussed. So that this information can be referred back to during the meeting, the sheets from the tablet are often taped or tacked to the wall.

VuTech solution: Place one or more adhesive Display Bar along wall and insert sheets from tablet into Display Bar prior to the start of the meeting thereby eliminating time wasted when sheets are being removed from tablet and taped/tacked to wall. Also eliminates ongoing damage to walls. A magnetic Display Bar can also be used and be moved where needed on metal-based whiteboards for better audience viewing.

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8) Copy/fax machine area – When a person is making multiple copies they sometimes set the number of copies to be made and then walk away planning to return later and retrieve the copies. In the interim faxes might be received and/or other persons might be making copies as well, which often results in a disorganized work station and wasted time for employees who are trying to locate their copies or faxes.

VuTech solution: Numerous copies and faxes can be stacked and then inserted into a Display Bar to provide an easy method of organizing both copies and faxes until they are picked up by the designated recipients.

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9) Displaying patient care instructions on doors and above bed in hospitals – Patient care instructions are sometimes taped or tacked, and often require nurses to write down instructions each time.

VuTech solution: The Display Bar is placed on door and over bed, which eliminates tacking or taping patient care instructions. Many hospitals create patient care instruction signs which are laminated and used repeatedly to eliminate nurses having to write instructions each time. This saves time and money.

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10) Displaying announcements on tripods - Displaying policy and event announcements using tripods often causes unnecessary clutter and a health and safety tripping hazard in lobbies and other common areas.

VuTech solution: Start by placing a Display Bar approximately five feet from the ground. When items need to be displayed they can quickly be inserted into the Display Bar without having to locate and setup/take down a tripod. Tripods also limit the size of the items being displayed, whereas a Display Bar could post something as small as a business card or as large as a poster/banner which extends all the way to the ground. When not being used to display items, the Display Bars’ clean brushed aluminum finish does not distract from the décor of a lobby or entry way. NOTE: a second Display Bar could be placed 14 inches below the first Display Bar. The top one can be used to display documents up to 8.5 X 14 inches, or smaller. The bottom Display Bar could be used for another row of similar sized items, or could display larger items such as large posters, etc.

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After using VuTech Display Bars

11) Nametags which do not have the capability to display visual items - Often items are taped or tacked under or near a persons’ nametag causing damage to walls or doors. When a persons’ location is changed, another expensive replacement nametag must be purchased.

VuTech Solution: Display Bars make great “functional nameplates” on both doors and cubicle walls. To reduce the cost of engraved plastic nametags many companies are utilizing label-makers, which can be purchased at office supply stores, to create a copy of the persons’ name. Once the label is attached to the Display Bar, it then serves as both a standard nametag as well as a receptacle for inserted documents, changes in meeting locations, announcements, and messages. Messages, or materials left for the occupier of an office will definitely be seen by the intended person upon their return. Nametags created by using a label on a Display Bar can easily be changed when personnel changes occur.

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Additional Applications

 

Displaying Artwork

 

To Display Nurse Rounding Logs

 

Various Lab Applications

 

To post policy changes or event announcements at information dissemination and handout pick up areas

 

Document Holder near Computer

 

A Mobile Display Method
	This application allows a facility to utilize existing technology in an improved portable manner. The student center, in this case, is able to use the framed area (supported by the square post which is centered in a round base) to post current items which are produced to the exact dimensions of the framed area. However, when guests are using/renting any of the multiple conference rooms and have items to post, they are able to use the Display Bar to post their visual items even if they don’t fit within the frame boundaries. Directions on how to use the Display Bar are printed right below the Bar. There are Display Bars on both the front and the back of the frame (not shown in picture), which allows information to be read from either direction upon entry or departure.

 

Displays for "Captive Audience Locations"
	For announcements in "Captive Audience Locations" such as restrooms, inside elevators, paper towel dispensers, and public transportation venues.

 

 

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Methods of Attachment

Magnetic Backing – For use on most metal surfaces including metal-based white boards

Foam-backed Adhesive – For use on textured or porous surfaces such as textured drywall, brick, or
cinder-block walls. This foam-backed adhesive is 1/8 inch thick, and when pressed firmly onto a
surface it conforms to the texture or pores of the surface.

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